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“O Alienista": The Quixotic Science

Dates:9 December 2020
Times:17:00 - 18:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Speaker:Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação
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This paper aims to examine notions of science and madness in O Alienista (1881) by Machado de Assis. It focuses on how the plot structure of the novella satirises the progressive philosophy of history and science in Comtean Positivism. Simultaneously, the narrator approximates Bacamarte, the alienist of the title, to Don Quijote de La Mancha (1605) by Cervantes, creating a spatial and temporal anachronism. These two opposing movements critique the limits and contradictions of Positivist philosophy in Brazil at the end of the nineteenth century.

https://zoom.us/j/98528071835 Meeting ID: 985 2807 1835 Passcode: 513390

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Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação

Organisation: University of Cambridge

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